Very good deal indeed. The cheapest I have seen it elsewhere is $213.00. Good eye.
Dan
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I haven't seen one of these lower-clocked OEMs myself, but I understand they have 3.6ns. memory on board - same as ATI's retail card.
It is not even clear if the OEM cards in question are manufactured by ATI or by other board manufacturers.
Like I said, its not going to make that much difference to HTPC enthusiasts, and even at 250/250 the cards are a good value and clocked *higher* than NVidia's top-of-the-line GeForce3 Ti500 (240/250).
Of course, the lower clock speed is stiriing up a storm on rage3d because people over there don't seem to do anything with their computers except run 3dmark.
(Note that I am using real clock speeds so if you are thinking in terms of DDR "effective" speeds, you need to multiply my numbers by 2.)
It is not even clear if the OEM cards in question are manufactured by ATI or by other board manufacturers.
Like I said, its not going to make that much difference to HTPC enthusiasts, and even at 250/250 the cards are a good value and clocked *higher* than NVidia's top-of-the-line GeForce3 Ti500 (240/250).
Of course, the lower clock speed is stiriing up a storm on rage3d because people over there don't seem to do anything with their computers except run 3dmark.
(Note that I am using real clock speeds so if you are thinking in terms of DDR "effective" speeds, you need to multiply my numbers by 2.)
Hi Michael:
___It appears that most of the current top shelf games (Max Payne, Black and White, Serious Sam, Quake III, UnReal Tournament) are greatly compatible according to the reviews posted today but like I have seen with the Rage chipsets of the past and the Radeon’s afterwards, how does it display Star Wars Rogue Squadron? I know its ancient game but I fire it up about once a year and play it through till the end and yes, I still enjoy it immensely … Both of the previous ATI chipsets have been terrible with this game as to make it unplayable whereas the Nvidia TNT’s and GeForce 256’s all the way through the latest GeForce Titanium’s have done this display exactly as I would have expected … Performance wise, the 8500 appears to be almost GeForce3 Titanium capable but not quite … At least we will get the great DVD display and flight sim frame rates that will suffice rather than unplayable (unless you liked to be shot down a lot) as I have seen with all of the Radeon’s of the past.
___Good Luck
___Wayne R. Gerdes
___Hunt Club Farms Landscaping Ltd.
___ [email protected]
___It appears that most of the current top shelf games (Max Payne, Black and White, Serious Sam, Quake III, UnReal Tournament) are greatly compatible according to the reviews posted today but like I have seen with the Rage chipsets of the past and the Radeon’s afterwards, how does it display Star Wars Rogue Squadron? I know its ancient game but I fire it up about once a year and play it through till the end and yes, I still enjoy it immensely … Both of the previous ATI chipsets have been terrible with this game as to make it unplayable whereas the Nvidia TNT’s and GeForce 256’s all the way through the latest GeForce Titanium’s have done this display exactly as I would have expected … Performance wise, the 8500 appears to be almost GeForce3 Titanium capable but not quite … At least we will get the great DVD display and flight sim frame rates that will suffice rather than unplayable (unless you liked to be shot down a lot
) as I have seen with all of the Radeon’s of the past.___Good Luck
___Wayne R. Gerdes
___Hunt Club Farms Landscaping Ltd.
___ [email protected]
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